United States v. Grimaud

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E-RROR TO THE DISTRICT COURT OF THE UNITED STATES FOR THE SOUTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA.

Qúare and not decided by this court whether the provision in the act of June 4, .1897, c. 2, 30.Stat. 30,. 35, empowering the Secretary of Agriculture to make regulations in regard to grazing sheep on a forest reserve is unconstitutional as delegating legislative power to an executive officer and empowering such officer to create a criminal ■ offense.

170 Fed. Rep. 20 .5, affirmed by a divided court.

These were writs of error to the District Court under the Criminal Appeals Aót of March 2, 1907,-as .defendants in

error were indicted for gracing sheep upon the Sierra Forest Reserve without' a permit in violation of Regulation 45, established by the Secretary of Agriculture concerning stock grazing upon forest resérves under-the act of June 4, 1897, c. 2, 30 Stát. 11 , 35.

The District Court sustained demurrers on thte ground that the act of 1897 delegated legislative power to an executive officer and that .the act is unconstitutional because it empowers an executive officer to create a criminal offense.